Skype

Skype has been updated on Xbox One will Snap functionality. Now, as you play whatever game it is you’re playing, you can chat with friends via Skype while you do whatever it is you are doing. The 53MB update will be applied upon accessing Skype through the dashboard. Thanks, DualShockers.

Skype has been updated today on Xbox One, with new filters and expanded chat logging. The latter allows users to logs the last 1,000 messages instead of just seven days of content. Now you have even more saved information in which to blackmail your friends. The app update also allows users to filters the contact […]

Xbox One gives you the ability to record your voice to accompany a gameplay clip and upload it to Xbox Live using Upload Studio, and it appears that multiple users have been temporarily banned for swearing in those clips.

According to documents the famous/infamous Edward Snowden showed The Guardian, Microsoft was said to have handed over all sorts of data from Skype, Outlook and SkyDrive to the National Security Agency’s PRISM program for several years now, and last week the paper detailed how all that works. Microsoft’s general counsel Brad Smith today challenged those […]

Microsoft is said to have given the US National Security Agency access to its users’ Skype calls, Outlook emails and SkyDrive contents for the past three years. A new report based on leaked documents suggests that the company offered the data as part of a US government surveillance initiative called Prism.

A job listing with Microsoft UK suggests the firm is looking into implement Skype into Xbox 360. Here’s a pull from the listing: “As a member of the Skype Xbox Engineering Team in London, you will have a strong technical background developing client and/or embedded software.” Unfortunately, the job description doesn’t state whether it’s developing […]

Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom feels it will be easy for Microsoft to capitalize on its recent $8.5 billion acquisition of the service should it expand it into mobile and focus on improving video calling features.

A Nintendo representative has told CVG that the company has “no plans to release a Skype application for DS or DSi”. Skype is already available on PSP, iPhone and iPod Touch via its VoIP application, leading some to suspect it would only be a matter of time before Nintendo got in on the trend. Further […]

No, they didn’t get it when everyone else did. Yes, they’re going to get it now. Apparently Skype will launch for PSP in Japan later this month after a two-month delay brought on because the microphone SCEJ had planned didn’t meet specifications from Skype. Clear?